Manager Of Enterprise Applications
Princeton, New Jersey, Us
Established a Corporate Center of Excellence overseeing the implementation, documentation, and on-going use of Business Objects software. - Established and documented Best Practices and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)s for use of BO software. - Deployed centralized and validated Development, Test, and Production environments, achieving 99.9% up time in Production.Provided proactive leadership and support for Corporate IT clients ensuring that they received the appropriate level of service from infrastructure and desk side resources. - Served as point of contact of IT services. Defined, and documented the processes of IT support teams. - Met regularly with business clients to review current operational performance. - Responsible for 24x7 operational support to Business Unit clients - Tracked and ensured Service Level Agreements (SLAs) were met. - Served as liaison to IT senior management on status of operational and project issues. Rescued an at-risk project and prevented a $2M write-off with the successful implementation of a quoting and billing system for a pharmaceutical company. - Replaced underperforming staff. - Used a phased implementation to address first the immediate needs of business users. - Established a 24X 7 support model for the six-month ramp up period. Managed the implementation of standard set of tools for managing project requirements and tracking product defects. - Created a central repository of tools, allowing corporate purchasing the leverage to negotiate lower license fees. - Established a bank of seat licenses available to all projects, decreasing the overall number of licenses required.Implemented a single Systems Development Life Cycles (SDLC) for use in an FDA-regulated environment. - Reduced from six the number of separate SDLCs. - Reduced the overhead required to support multiple system methodologies - Increased the number of projects that IT and QC professionals are trained to work on.